Name HMS Spartiate Fate Sold July 1932 Beam 69 ft (21 m) Weight 11,180 tons Draft 7.77 m | Renamed Fisgard, June 1915 Class and type Diadem-class cruiser Launched 27 October 1898 Displacement 9.979 million kg Builder Pembroke Dock | |
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Length 435 ft (133 m) (462 ft 6 in (140.97 m) o/a) | ||
HMS Spartiate was a ship of the Diadem-class protected cruisers in the Royal Navy. She was built at Pembroke Dock and launched on 27 October 1898. She was a stokers' training ship in 1914 and was renamed Fisgard in June 1915. She survived the First World War and was sold in July 1932. She returned to Pembroke to be broken up.
Construction
Spartiate was delivered at Portsmouth from Pembroke dockyard in April, 1900, and in the following winter went on her trials. Sand in the condensers led to friction in her machinery, and her engines had to be re-constructed. New trials the following year ended with her condenser tubes leaking so badly they had to be replaced with new ones before she could be ready. A third attempt at trials in April 1902 was also abandoned, but she finally completed her trials in July that year, and was ready for sea in March 1903.